 Welcome to the show, I Have Notes. The show where people with surprisingly full IMDB pages come together, discuss all things animation creative and why Issa is playing mind sweeper in the middle of a recording. I am your host, Issa Paddiela. Jacques Hughes. Jacques Hughes and joining me today as ever my lovely co-host, Kari Chakras. Hi, my name is Kari Chakras and I have a weird energy today. With me is our regular special guest, amazing special guest, Erin Nguyen. Yeah, do it more like- She's a wave. She's a wave. She's feeling wiggly and weird today. Cool, I didn't introduce you yet. Oh, get shoveled. No, you don't exist yet. And our special guest for this week, my voice cracked because I'm so excited except for one aspect of him, Cole Galleon. Hey. You waited. He's also waiting. My shoulders hurt. I was doing that for too long. Oh, no. You got some weak shoulders, boy. What do you say to me? Hey, so I know we have a topic sheet and I know Issa, you're kind of hosting this week, but first thing, Cole, tell us about your gross beer and why I'm upset about it. I have pickle beer. It's delicious. It tastes 0% like beer, 100% like pickles. Buy it now, specs.com slash Rooster Teeth TV. Your chance right now. There's- What official? It's about to say if anyone ever had a beer this good. It tastes just like pickle juice, 100%. Here's my problem. A, I think pickles taste bad. Come at me. Ooh. All right, I'm on my way. A hot take. That's all I've got. It's like pee. You're drinking pee. One point right here. Yeah? More pickles for me, man. That's fine. Pickles. There's more pickles in the world for me. But now- Take pickles, squeeze them into my beer, and thus have a pickle beer. Yeah, here's my problem, though. Now there's one less beer I can drink. Now there's danger beers, and I have to look at a beer before I drink it, which is- You like sour beer? Yeah, I love sour beer. It tastes like a- Sour beer is pickle beer light. Except for the fact that it doesn't taste exactly like a pickle, which is what you said this does. This tastes 100% like pickle. And again, you're putting that in the pro column, and I just kind of think you have it when it's flipped. I'm tired. I'm tired of drinking pickles and getting a tummy ache, all right? So I'm finally glad I can have something that I can drink pickles and not get a tummy ache. What? I can't even. I can't even with this one. Can drink pickles? When I was a small child, I made a short video where I just turned the camera green and I talked about living in a pickle jar. God, that's so on brand. Yeah. If there's like that sweet hashtag of like, what's the most on brand school thing or like childhood thing you ever done that sounds like Cole? It was like a noir. Like I was like- A noir? And I still live in a pickle jar. My pickle son left home today, started Pickle College. Cole! And Pickle Island S syndrome. I'm sorry that I hate your son. You hate my son! No, well, here's the thing. I hate him, but I won't hate him. Oh, I thought you said you hate him. Okay, that's fine. No, I'm not going to eat your pickle son. I'll eat your normal son. But I'm not going to eat your pickle son. What? Well, I'm not saying that I- Okay, hang on. This is a weird start. I'm not going to eat your son. I have no son cannibalism. I definitely won't eat your pickle son. And I'm just saying- But you might be my regular son. I'm not even saying that I might. I'm just saying that- There's more of a chance of you eating my regular son than my pickle son. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I feel confident in saying that for a couple reasons. But yeah, I feel OK if that's put on a shirt, whatever. I don't give- yeah, that's fine. Yeah, I feel- We got to the bottom of it. I stand by that. Carrie, 2030. I probably- You said I won't be able to- What are the chances of you eating either of my sons? None. Let's- OK, hang on, let's walk it back. Issa, stance on pickles. Are you- are you- are you against them or are you wrong? I- First of all, Carrie, fuck you. Choose your next words carefully, Issa. That was when- when Stephen Colbert did the Colbert report. That was my favorite thing. Issa used to say George Bush, best or great- It was- oh, dang it. Good president or greatest president. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Issa, pickle stance. I'm on the middling- I'm on the neutral middling pickle spectrum. Here, look at my pickles. That cucumber pickles aren't even the best pickles. I like it. Eggplant pickles are the best pickles. Pickle plums? Right, are we going in that direction? Pickle plums or maybe boshi? Oh, I'm like- Number one dessert. Welcome to I Have Pickles. The podcast where we talk about pickles. Oh, I'm out. Fuck fucking- Brought to you by HBO Max, where HBO meets so much more. Check out the Pickle Rick expert episode of- Hey, Pickle Rick! Welcome to Pickle Rick and Morty. Of Pickle and Morty. Next caller. We have Pickle Morty here with us. How do you- what are you doing today, Pickle Morty? I just- we still have not yet let Issa really answer. We're all very tired. I don't want the three all, but I think we're all very tired. It's kind of the end of the day. It's only Tuesday. And that's why there's kind of a weird energy. Issa, talk about pickles. There are a few awesome things happening. Or well, good things we could talk about, bad things we could talk about, things we have onions about. Pickled onions, first of all. Pickled onions so good. I'm working with a pickled onion, if I'm being honest. Disgusting! This new one showed up. I'm a bird day from Carrie. Oh, I meant to put dad. Sorry, hang on, let me fix that. Oh, you're a bird dad, Carrie. I'm a bird dad now. I know I kind of missed Father's Day, but- You have birds? Well, my house has birds. This is an important distinction. Yeah, so a couple weeks ago, time is an enigma. I started seeing this little nest near my front door, and I was like, what? I didn't even know it was a nest at first. I was like, OK, maybe it's mud-dabbers. I don't know what this is. And then I come to learn, oh, it's a little baby birds. And actually, so I've watched them grow now. And we have a picture from just a couple days ago of where they're at now. Your sons or children. Yeah, I don't know. Cole would eat your sons. I would absolutely eat your sons. Look at them with a side of the picture. Oh, they're so big. They've gotten so big. Oh, I love those, because we used to have that in my old house, and I would call them the council, and every day I would come to school. I would ask them, I was like, council, and I'd bow my head and progress on my way to school. It's funny, I talked to you about this. Once you told me that I can't not see that and do that now, because I'll just go outside, go get the mail or something, and I'll come back in and I'll just look up at them and be like, carry on, and then go in. But this morning, only one was out there. But then they all came back. So I guess they're starting to learn. But the two things I just want to share is just like, there's been something so pure and warm about in all these shitty times, watching something grow like that, was it really hit me in this really weird way. The funnier thing, though, is like, oh, my god, there's so much poop. What do you think their nest is made out of? Oh, gross. There is like, it is like an issue outside of my front door. I'm just like, I'm waiting until they're done. It's fine. We all share this earth. But I just like, any time I get food delivered, I kind of judge them based on how close they put my food to the shit pile. Oh, no. Someone got kind of close, if I'm being a little honest. But yeah, I wanted to share life with you all, because I think it's all important that we remember that even in the bad times, mother nature carries on. Life finds a way. Did you know it? Oh, yes. No, I delivered the line verbatim like the movie man does. The movie man. The shirtless man. The movie man. That's my favorite movie. And that's everything I had to bring to today. I want to continue this train of things that make us happy, because there's another thing here that Erin explicitly said made her happy. And it was about Mike Mignola. Erin, could you share with us? He kind of spoiled it. So I guess I don't know who or how, but somebody, the stars aligned and Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy and awesome artist in general, like did legend. He drew several of the grim from a little show called Ruby and one of them I designed and he fricking drew them for an auction, which is crazy. That's probably sold by now by the time this episode comes out. And I really want to buy one. I've got it. I've been looking at it. I'm like, but I know fans would like appreciate him. Like, yeah, I thought about it too. And just like, yeah, that's cool. We should like chip in and like, like go to like Kinko. Does Kinko still exist? Yes. Okay, it's Kinko's FedEx now. Okay, thank you. We should get like some nice prints of them or something. But like, yeah, I thought about the same thing. But yeah, it's all of those kind of things. Like I always assumed that it's some combination of Jeff Yetter and Christine Brent, who I think, I think, yeah. That like, I know Jeff was freaking out too, just because he's a big Hellboy fan. But there's some of the wonderful people behind like the licensing stuff we do and merch. It's so weird because like I study sequential art in college. Like that was my major. So I did not just concept art, but like comics and storyboard and stuff. And even like one of my like early class assignments was like, we had to do like a pastiche project, like an homage or like, we had to like draw on the style of a famous comic book artist or graphic novel artist and then adapt like a scene from a like iconic movie. So I did, I did Mike Vignola and I did Blade Runner. And I still have those. I'm not going to show them. But it's just like, oh, there they are. Oh, here we are. Yeah. So I drew the, the knuckle avi knuckle avi. I still, four years later, I still don't know how to say that. It's whatever, it's whatever. We know it. Yeah. Either way, we know what you mean. Here's the bearing goal. Yeah. My boy, my monkey boy. Yeah, that's so cool. And like suits his style so well. So it's just like the perfect mashup. Yeah, like that start contrast. The Beowulf. Beautiful. Thank you, Mike Vignola. That was that. It was nice to see after having kind of a shitty weekend. So yeah, I can die happy now. Oh, I'm sorry. With my monkey boy. Can I can I ask a really embarrassing question? Sure. Yes. You. Erin, you said a word a minute ago that started the pee. They kind of sound like pastasio. No, not pastasio. What is I've always wondered like what that meant, but never cared enough to look it up. I hopefully am saying that right. It's been a while. I think you are. That's why you can do it. I just I'm doing it right now. It is a type of art that pays homage to. They have homage. So it's not exactly parody or yeah, exactly. It's like a remix. Yeah, remix. Yeah, so I did Mike Vignola and Blade Runner. But that's not the new one. That was so it came full circle. Yeah. Yeah. So he helped. He helped educate you and he did. And now you have done something that has now come back to him. There you go. That's really cool. Yeah, it's so cool. I'm honored. It's it was really cool. Life. Finds a way. Did you not again? You almost always. Went Barack Obama there. Yeah, it's a little it's a little Obama. My fellow Americans find the way. And these trying times. Mr. Obama, what do you think of pickles and pickle pee? Pickles are an establishment. Don't you know? No, no. Don't you besmirch him? It was good name for American. You will eat a pickle or drink. Pickle I think Aaron Aaron besmirch means to pay homage to. OK. I believe it, you know, close enough. Oh, oh my God. I'm already like my face already hurts from laughing. Thank you for being just the way this is what we need it today. This makes me happy. I haven't I haven't seen this many people in so long. I know I haven't talked to you face to face in like three months. We talked to the thin veneer of a yeah. No real interaction. How have you been? I've been all right. I've been a little busy doing a little busy. Yeah, she moved. Can you tell? Yeah, I could not tell. I was not really familiar with her environment. That's OK. You didn't. That's a valid. That's valid. I immediately noticed the cat tower. How are the cats? They're good. Oh, I took I took Lucas to the vet to get his teeth cleaned today. Oh, I picked him up. I was expecting him to be very pitiful and in pain. But actually, he's like kind of very mellow. He's sitting next to me right now. So it's because they wrote him. Yeah. He's stoned out of his mind. He's having a good time right now. So I'm not I'm not too mad. Oh, that's how I'm doing. Cole, how about you? Excellent. Yeah, who are you? Yeah, who are you? Obviously, most people, you know, come to our teeth through I have notes. So what if what if you do you want to kind of talk about who Cole, who you are? And I mean that more in like the rich teeth way and not anything about yourself necessarily. I didn't think we had enough time for who I am personally. But no, as everyone at this at this digital table is a man of many hats. E table. Thank you. E table. Yeah. Yeah. For all the boys and girls out there. Day job editor. I'm also a producer on a lot of our select all brand anime adjacent type stuff as well as a host on backwards compatible or animation department gaming brand. You're one of the people that does a lot of heavy lifting in, you know, yeah, live action aspects of and personally driven aspects of the animation department particular. Correct. Yes, you do a lot of, you know, yeah, streams and stuff. And you're a funny, funny man. And then I mean, then like the like you are funny, not pointing and laughing and going funny man. Not in the Toy Story. You are a sad, strange little man. But hey, you're funny. Yeah. That was a very real insult for kids movie. It was, right? You are a sad, strange little man. I love that movie. Yeah, but yeah. But yeah, and also, yeah, go ahead, go ahead. Because I think you're going to say it's we all used to do a podcast together. So I'm glad to be back hanging out with the yeah, it's a fan service reunion. It was called I have fan service. I have fans and I have to service them. Yeah, I have anime. I have anime. I wore my shirt for all time's sake. Yeah, yeah, I still so that like that's I'm so proud of that shirt. It's a pretty cool shirt. We probably don't have it anymore. Unfortunately, I don't know because it is a really popular shirt. I think, yeah. And that was kind of like what we wanted to do is we wanted to make a shirt that anyone could wear. I might like stupidly enough, my ideal situation was to have a shirt that someone would wear in a gym and another person would come up and ask, what does that mean? And it's just kind of like, oh, it's just the thing. Oh, yeah. And just to be clear, not talk about it because they're embarrassed that they watch anime. Yeah, to hide it and be like, oh, it's a cool show I watch. You wouldn't understand. Yeah, you wouldn't get it. Yeah, because it's like, that's the thing, right? If you make it sound like too cool for them, then they get interested. I want to be cool too. Yeah, you can't be excited about things. I as a person who gets excited about things, you can't be excited about things. Yeah, because you come on too strong and you're like, hey, you got to watch this, check this out. Hey, smash your face. Yeah, drink pickles. Drink pickles. Drink pickle. Cool is a very good DJ, self-person. Well, he's a producer. Recently. That's also true, yes. I was in like Beats. Oh, Beats by Dre. No, they're Beats by Cole. Hey, we kind of we skip past like because Cole and I just like fucking railroaded right through this entire show. We talked about pickles and shit. Yeah, I'm sorry. No, don't be sorry. Uh, talking about, uh, like how everybody's week, you know, has been, uh, Issa. How are things, how are things going with Recorded by Arasol? There's kind of a big milestone recently. Are you free? Are you free? Um, am I free? What does what does freedom mean? How many socks do you have? And how did you get them? Uh, Recorded by Arasol. Log is, or the prelude is officially done for first year. Yay. Congrats. Thank you. Y'all know what that means. Now is the time. I know you've been waiting. It's true. It's true. Sign up for your, um, first. Yeah. Sign up for your first trial right now. It is, uh, there's an interesting conversation that we always have. And I would comment sometimes, uh, early on where people would be like, I don't know. If I'm interested and I go, you should try the binge experience. And it turns out that, um, we, uh, most of the people in the company who have watched the show have binged it and they have a certain opinion, but I was not necessarily sure about what it would be like for people who are watching a week to week. So, um, it is definitely a different experience. Yes. Exactly. Kind of I 100% think everyone who actually watched a week to week and still really enjoyed it. I really appreciate that. Um, I think the amount of people who have experienced it in binge form and people who have said whether, or have questioned about whether or not they would come back week to week just for a five minute video does make me think about what it, what it means for a short form narrated. Serial content. Um, And how to present that. So I think there's going to be a lot of interesting conversations about that, but like first and foremost, this was definitely a test to see how things went. And honestly, I think it was pretty positive. So thank you everyone. Yeah. We're all really proud of you. Yeah. Absolutely. You and the 2d team. Yes. What you're saying. So let me get this straight. What you're saying is that if you watched it week to week, you should now go and binge watch it. And then tell all your friends. Like, no, I like legit. Like go and binge watch it to see what is that experience like. Like, yeah, I mean, we, we've talked about this a lot in the past about, in animated discussions about how you, there is a different appreciation for some shows, depending on whether you binge watch or watch week to week, because it's pacing is affected as well as like your investment in it. So. Okay. Go ahead. Okay. I just, just like to that point, I was just going to say like, you know, and I think we talked about, I got it. I've talked about so many fucking things now. I don't know where or when, but we have talked to us at one point where, you know, like, a volume five of Ruby like had some story issues that, you know, we don't shy away from like, we, you know, we talk about how we're always growing. There have been, I've seen a significant number of people online who, you know, didn't watch it week to week, but then watch like the DVD when they came out and they'll like, they'll make a Reddit post. It's like, why do people hate on volume five? I thought it was fine. Interesting. Yeah. And, and that's like, it would be super clear not saying that there aren't issues with it. Yeah. This issues with everything because we're, you know, we're moving and things could always be better, but it, there's, there's a significant trend with some of the, and four as well of like, just, you know, pace wise, I think we were still trying to figure out how to like, do a show that wasn't like a hub anymore. And, and it definitely seemed like people, when people watched it as a whole, they appreciated a little bit differently than watching a week to week, which, you know, is the lesson we can learn too. Cause we do present a weekly show, but it's, it's super interesting. That's like, it's a very new in media concept for at least like a digital, like a recorded media, um, the concept of a week to week appointment viewing, but also happening to hold up in the binge viewing conversation. Yeah. Like, I mean, I mean, television has run off syndication for so long where it's just like, make a show that was week to week, and then you can worry about syndication later. And it's more, more so nostalgia thing. Um, Well, for the longest time too, I feel like it was, it was more common. And I think Netflix is part of this. It was like, it was, if you, if you were going to binge something, it was because you missed it. Like you did it, you completely like skipped out on it and wait until the end versus like now Netflix like drops a whole show, you know, right from the get go, or in the case of some anime holds on to it until it's all aired. Well, that was honestly the thing that I think pushed it. Anime was honestly what pushed it to be, they held on to it and waited anime and, uh, foreign media, Kara's house, um, they have a bunch of J dramas, K dramas, a bunch of other, uh, foreign media that they're, I understand the point. Like I've talked to people who have been like, I would rather just wait for it to all be out instead of having to figure out my week around. I mean, currently I am, me myself, I'm currently beholden to a, uh, weekly appointment show. I watch, uh, AEW wrestling every Wednesday night. It's like, Is that the root beer? No, AEW dynamite. Which I mean, if you don't watch wrestling, you should. It's the bachelorette meets anime. Like what are you going to do? Cole, we have so much in common, but then some things we just divert so hard. And I just like, Oh, I want to, I want to win you over so good, my friend. Cause cut to a year later and I'm, I'm down and pickle juice while watching wrestling with you. I used to think I would never like wrestling. I really did think I used to like, cause to me growing up, it was always the thing that bullies were interested in. Interesting. Um, I think I told the story of, I haven't told it on here, obviously, the story of like, I didn't, I hated Dragon Ball Z at first. I absolutely despised and hated it because the bully of my school wore Dragon Ball Z shirts all the time. He also wore a lot of wrestling shirts. And I was like, oh, I don't want to like something that encourages people to be mean and fight people. I'll bet Vegeta was his favorite character. Like early Vegeta. Oh, true. Not my moustache Vegeta. Cool moustache Vegeta. With his cool shirt. Yeah, Mr. Badman. Go back to it. Like I'm now beholden to that appointment viewing. Like, I mean, I'd like that time back, but I'd like, well, I'd like that Wednesday. Like I feel like every Wednesday I have that appointment. So I, I ultimately like that binge, watch it your own pace type of stuff. But I like, I definitely have, I used to be beholden to that schedule when I watched a lot of CW shows. So like the arrow flash legends of tomorrow. It, I'll even like not non CW, but still kind of part of that syndication. And like I watched a lot of elementary. I would always kind of go to a website. And then watch the episode at a specific day. And then it would actually be a really interesting fun, I guess, experience at that time. Because when I was watching how to get away with murder, when I was airing, I would always message Caesar because we were both watching it at the same time. And he'd be like, Oh, what? Shit. And then we would like, we would slack each other our reactions and like, oh my God, this is so crazy. But now I think I'm learning that. The more people don't have. TV, the more and like the more you kind of just fall out of things, the more other people are also falling out of it as well. And now I'm like, Oh, I am that binge experience is just so easy because it's accessible now. So I think I'll touch on this last week. It's also a control thing. Like the binge experience is you get to watch it at your pace. If something's too much for you, take a step back. Yeah. Like we're going to wait. If you get to that one Tiger King episode where they're watching the security camera footage and you just like, I need a minute now. I refuse to watch that. Every episode. That's okay. I had to watch a, I have, I have a list of recovery anime that when a show gets too intense, I'll go and watch the slice of life recovery anime, like flying witch or laid back camp or one of those like feel good where it's like, Oh, this is just about camping. I had a Tiger King after every episode. It had to go watch a recovery anime because it was like, this is, I would finish it and be like, Oh, that's so crazy. That's ridiculous. And then it would like my brain would like tick and go, these are real people. Yeah. These are real tigers. These are real tigers. These are real tigers. These are real tigers. And there's also like, I've watched you. I just watched a person watch someone die. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, put on Netflix kind of blows my mind. Like it's Tiger King. There is. What was that one documentary where the guy's head gets blown off? Oh my God. What was that one? I don't know. It was like a based off of a true story. Like it was the actual footage. I can't remember now. Oh my God. Yeah. It was fucked up. Yeah. Put like an unsolved case files or something. Yeah. The unsolved murders. Yeah. That was an interesting unsolved murders. Cause they did. They did put up the unsolved series or like they rebooted it. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Sorry. Yeah. It's not all murders, but it's mostly like. Unsolved mysteries. Yeah. I'm sorry. Yeah. Mysteries. Yeah. Unsolved mysteries. All right. Unsolved M word. There was. I feel terrible admitting this because it's one of those things where it's just like, oh, you don't ever really want to like say that you know about it or you've talked about it because I think it's kind of the idea of like putting power to like a person or a name. I watched the Epstein documentary series. Oh. I've heard some things about that. Where I'm like, I don't think I'm ready to watch this. I don't think I ever will be ready to watch this. It's, it's a hard, it's hard. It's okay. How to put it. I didn't binge it. So it was definitely like a solid hour for like every night, but it was after the first one, it took me by so a bit to be like, we eventually came around to being like, okay, I think we need to finish this because after that first one, it was like, oh, oh man, I don't know how to feel about this. Yeah. We're, it is to like, we're informed now and like we, we know when there's like, I guess like a, what's the word? A buzzword that we see in the news, like the Lane Maxwell or more exciting stuff. There's these like things that pop up in the news and we don't exactly. Yeah, exactly. We now understand the context behind like why they're in the news and it's, it's fucking messed up. Yeah. I feel like, and I'm a total hypocrite on this is I have not watched it yet. I do plan on it. I just have not watched it yet. Yeah. Some of that stuff that's like, I struggle because like Aaron, I'm in the same boat. Like I don't know. I don't know when I would be in a good place to watch something like that. Yeah. I also feel like real people. Yeah. I also feel like recovery anime. Yeah. Get some recovery anime and some nontickle beer. I also feel like a responsibility to watch it. To like know what is like. Yeah. To say it's, it's, it's like, it's what's staying up today. It's also like those are real people. So we need to, we need to know that these things are real and call it out. Yeah. You know, but it's, it is hard. I haven't done it yet. It's not easy, but it's like, we need to be calling like, we got to stop letting things like that be okay. Yeah. It's not that it was actively okay, but it's like, it went on for so long. So long. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For me, I have like the worst self-control when it comes to like binging, like I either benched the whole show. Or I just don't watch it. Like with Japan sinks. I know I keep talking about it. Like I told myself, okay, I'm going to watch one episode. And I, I ended up watching the whole thing. Like I literally cannot stop myself when it comes to shit like that. So I feel like if I did ever end up watching like the Tiger King or the Epstein documentary, like I wouldn't be traumatized in like one sitting. So that's another, that's for me personally. I like, I don't have self-control. He, who is the, who is the director on that one? Who is the director on the Japan sinks? He's the guy who did that. Yeah. He's going to have two anime of the year. He's going to have two anime of the year discussion this year. Honestly. He did. Oh yeah, he did. Oh wow. Holy crap. He's really good. Yeah. Yeah. Have y'all seen the night is on walk on, but night is long walk on girl. I wanted to see that when that was in theaters and nobody wanted to go with me. I went and saw it by myself. Wow. Because I asked in the fan service like if anyone wanted to say anything. I thought I did. I don't, I don't recall. I don't recall. I have to, I have the blue. I'll come. I'll find a way to get through it. Just chuck it at her from a distance. I wanted to see it. I, well, hey, this give me a good time to talk about anime and not Tiger King. Welcome to fan service. Fan service segment. There's a new movie coming out in 2021. Yeah. Question mark. Yeah. It's a slayer movie. It's the, uh, the demon train arc. Yeah. Oh my gosh. So good. I'm very excited. Okay. So question at the manga. I'm not caught up, but I know what happens. Okay. I'm familiar with this arc. Can I say something really embarrassing? Yeah. Absolutely. I haven't watched it yet. Okay. I call, I went to yours and we watched like two episodes of it. And I was like, this is really good. I can't wait to watch more of this. And like, I just like didn't get back to it. I definitely going to, I like, I loved what I saw. I'm just tired. This is fair. Oh, well, it's like, I, because I started reading the manga and I, it didn't click with me for so long. I didn't go back and watch it again until episode 19 hit. And everyone was like, this is the greatest anime ever made. And I was like, what? What the hell are you talking about? And I went back and watch it was like, this is really good. Okay. And then I also picked up, uh, I mean, I'm a image. I mean, I'm a huge proponent for shonen jump subscription. Me too. It's like $2 a month and you get every issue from there on out. Oh, um, so. Call. Call. The Viz app. Yes. Yes. So it's the same thing. Yeah, I did. Hell yeah. Yeah. Call was the one who eventually convinced me to get this. You get manga two days after Japan gets it. Yeah. Dang. So it's like, they have the current episodes. They have the current volumes of my hero. Um, you can catch. So if you want to catch up on that, um, Oh, my family is one of my favorite series. Chainsaw man. Come out. I need to read the new chapter. Monday. Nice. Uh, yeah. Catching up with my hero as a quick tangent. Oh man. That was boy. Howdy. We're in for it. Um, yeah. But the demon slayer. What I wanted to ask Aaron Cole, did you wait? So Cole, you didn't, you kind of binge demon slayer. I bingeed it to episode 19. Then I finished the season out regularly. And then I went and binge the manga. Oh, wow. I watched it not since episode one, maybe I think three or four episodes have been out. And then after that, I watched week to week. And yeah, it wasn't like, I understand why like, um, some people wouldn't have jumped on. It's definitely falls in within that. Like by the third episode, it gets good rule. Like it kind of falls into that. Um, so I think I did start at episode four, but I found it engaging enough to keep watching. It wasn't like I got to episode three and I was like, this is the best anime ever. It was just like, Oh, this is entertaining enough for me to continue. Yeah. I definitely got that from what I watched. I just, I also like went through a really weird phase where like, I just couldn't bring myself to watch sub stuff for a while. Just cause like I didn't want to read. In like, Hey, there's a, my limited window. Yeah. I might check it out. I honestly like, we talked to us a couple of weeks ago, but like I've been watching the hundred hundred dub. I told myself this weekend I was going to start and I did it. And I'm really disappointed in myself. Apparently we started watching. You probably passed me now. I started watching the dub around the same time that you were watching it. Gary. Yeah. Unknowingly that like, that's funny. I wonder if we saw something. The stars, the hundred hundred stars. Six episodes in the season two or something like that. Uh, I'm still, I'm still like episode three. Okay. But I'm, but I'm about, I'm about to hop back into one piece. Oh, good luck. That's a commitment. Yeah. That's a, that's a, that's a job. Yeah. I feel, there's only 70 episodes available. And like, I think like 140 total or something. One piece is like, I got, I'm at, I'm in the three, I'm in the three hundreds right now. Wait, I'm going to check. It's over a thousand episodes. Episodes. There's 900 something. 31. Yeah. 31. Um, I'm in the, I'm in the nine hundreds. All right. I'm in the three hundreds. I'm in the three hundreds, but I hit a very bad arc, like a notoriously bad arc. Oh no. Okay. That is canon. So you have to watch it. Oh no. So if I, if I did my math correctly, which is probably, I didn't, uh, that means there's 310 hours of one piece. Way more than that. Right. Alex, like, uh, wait, hang on, hang on. You're probably right. You're probably right. I went to arts. Well, 931 times 24. Oh, actually I'm going to do 931 times 20. Cause there's the credits and stuff. Uh, times 20. Cause here's the thing. Here's the thing. One piece. One piece does not have credits. Oh, no credit. One, one piece has an extended intro to not have credits. Okay. Yeah. Sounds about right. So that's it. That's crazy. How many months in quarantine have we been in? How many, how is that in hours? Could you have watched all of one piece? Wait, 372 divided by 24. Andrea did. It's only, it's only 15 and a half days. Yeah. Only that's like nothing. Andrea watched all of, uh, this race. Yeah. Oh my God. The mad woman. That was hilarious. Watched everyone being like, I'll never watch one piece too. Hey, it's actually the best series ever made. That was me. Pirates one. Guys, we all knew this. Pirates, ninjas and, lumberjacks. Grim reapers. Oh yeah. No, it's at the original big three. Grim reapers. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, one piece. Yeah. But pirates one. I said that the moment Nardo ended, I was like, oh, fuck that. Yeah. Um, so I wanted to tangent. Um, if you guys don't mind, uh, some news drop today. Um, righty, uh, said that one, the live action Mulan. Um, Disney is going to be showing for $30 on Disney plus. That's a, what? So you have to have a Disney plus account. On top of, you then have to pay 30 bucks for the Mulan movie. You will also have to do that for a black widow, Marvel's black widow. Okay. Couple questions. Do you do it then? It's renting. It's renting. It hurts me. So it hurts me. I don't like this. I'm on two sides. I'm on two sides. I'm on two sides. One of your sides is wrong. For everyone here. This is outrageous. Yeah. Okay. This is a travesty. You're a family of three. This is perfect. Uh, well, how many times do you get to watch it? Well, for the family. I mean, even if you watch it once, it's less than the price of buying three movie tickets. Sure. Okay. Sure. That makes sense. Okay. Like they are not going to release in theaters at all. Okay. So they're missing that. So they're trying to make up for that. That buzz. Um, I saw in the same article in some of the same articles that like AMC is trying this weird thing where they're only going to show theaters for 17 days instead of the normal 70. But, Oh, AMC. Yeah. You have to show it for a shorter amount of time. It's like testing. If you don't test as much, there won't be as many cases. So if you don't show it in theaters as much, nobody died, they'll be worse. I feel like limiting the window that it's in theaters. It's going to force people into theaters quicker. Right. Instead of like staggering it out over, over time. Yeah. I make it 140 days. Like, hey, half capacity. I've heard 28. Okay. Um, okay. Here, here's the one thing. Cole, I think you bring up a good point. Uh, one thing I would say is I don't have a good point. Uh, one thing I would say is I don't have children. I have birds. Correct. Um, from what I, and I have a cat one from what I do understand about children is they like to watch the same thing over and over and over again. So Cole, um, uh, I would like you to be the parent. Uh, and I'm going to be your little boy. Okay. And we, so you, hi there son. Okay. Well, hang on. We're still watching the movie. It's you. You're screaming during the movie. Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm a, okay. But here's the thing, right? So you and, uh, uh, my, my mama and your wife, we've watched the movie together, three of us, right? So it's $10 per person. We've watched the Disney pictures move on live action movie. Yes. And, and we each spent $10, you know, effectively on it, right? Okay. I want you to now explain to me why I can't watch it again as a kid. Because we have the better version. There's the animated film. I want to, I want to, I want to watch it again. We have the better version. We have the, we know we just watched it. I want to watch what we watched again. I went to the bathroom in the middle of it. Wait, wait, wait. No. Cause it's, it's a rental. If it's a rental, that means it's 24 hours. I, they have not released what the actual details of how long you get it is. Okay. Cause that's what was, what happened with trolls too, right? It was just a 24 hour rental. It may be made. Yeah. But that was in Disney. I mean, like money more. I just like, you were 100% right. You were 100% right. The con, the concept of young people and old people are not going to understand really young and really old people are not going to understand. I just watched it. Why can't I watch it again? I spent $30 on it. Well, and also to go back to like looking at the past and how anime has been a pioneer in this anime strike on Amazon failed for this exact reason is that you had a subscription to Amazon and then you also had to pay an additional cost to get the anime strike to watch a week to week. I don't think it's going to do well. I mean, to me, to me, it's the same thing. I mean, the same thing could be said if your kid sees a movie in a theater, I think there's a little bit of differences because your kids used to watching repeated viewings on their home TV. So that's, that's kind of what I was thinking of. I mean, you're 100% right, but it's like I've left the theater. I can't watch it again. And it's like, I could make the case like I want to go back to the theater where I was your boy still, which I always, I am and always with you. I also think that that happens for kids who see a movie in a theater and they're like, why can't I watch that again? And that's just the lesson of life, bub. Yeah. And you've got to wait six months to buy the blue ray. You do. You know, I know we like to be positive on this show, but I mean, chances are they're going to watch Mulan and, and yeah, not want to watch it again. I mean, I have my own problems with it where it's, there's been a lot of anti Hong Kong sentiments coming out of it. Yeah. I'm, I also wish they would have found an actual Japanese or Chinese director. Oh man, you brought up like the onions that I have on this as well. Excuse me. The pickled onions. So yeah, because they're sour now. My onions are very sorry about this. They're so, they're so pickled. I think it's interesting because I do have to admit it's like, I wanted to do this. I did want to support a lot of the people on that cast. Um, especially, uh, because there are like certain names in there that I've, I've been like, it's, it's a really exciting opportunity. And I know I think the movie will still make money. I don't think it will make as much as they definitely wanted. Um, but Hey, they wanted that. I that the money from, from internationally. So I think, it's down 42% of profits right now. So there, they have to figure something out. out there. They have to figure something out. This is like their solution. This is just me as an individual. Sure. Go ahead and speak for all of us. Thank you. I'm handing you my token. You speak for me now. Okay. Stop making live action remakes of animated movies. You definitely still have my token. Okay. I just want to throw that out there. I agree. I understand they're going to. Yes. They're going to keep making these because they want money and it's guaranteed. And they've done well. Yeah. Like my hope is that we're saying all this but they did well. My hope is that that encourages people to go watch the like what I was saying like in that brilliant dramaticization that you can then go hey go watch the original thing is based off of. Yeah. Here's the animated version which you will hopefully like better. Yeah. And we can let's let's rent that. Let's buy that. Let's pay Disney plus for that. Watch this then you watch Lion King and you're like hey I like this. Cool. Go watch Kimba. That's what they stole from. We're going to roll deep here. And then they're into anime and then you love them because they're an anime child. Here's Beastars. Here's BNA. Yeah. Exactly. Then suddenly. Well how'd that happen. Sure. Whatever. And not going to lie. Like just to like put this out there. I definitely bought into it. I watched Beauty and the Beast. I watched it twice in theaters. I did cry and like so I enjoyed the experience. I'm not going to lie but for this one I have a lot of personal feelings and opinions about it that I'm kind of just like sorry guys I might not be on the side of the argument for this. I feel like as a society we should have a rule like for every because I am you know in the same way too it's like I do like when like games that I like get remade because then I have a chance to play them again like Spiro like that was like my first video game and like playing through that remaster was like that that is how I spent my time off between volume 7 and volume 8 was I 100% in all three Spiro games and it meant a lot to me. I also feel like for every remaster there should be like or like live action remake or whatever there should be like two new IPs that are greenlit at the same time and they probably won't make as much as the other but like use the old things to fund new things. Yeah. Did y'all play the new Final Fantasy did y'all finish the new Final Fantasy 7? Yes I watched my essay. I haven't even started it yet. I am like halfway through. It is the it is what I want every reboot to be. Right it's great because it's it's the same but not. Yeah. Yes. It's a completely different play style. It's it's not you know I don't uh I I'm not a game developer uh and I was not on that team uh in the same way that like when like Spiro which is a little bit more of a one-to-one remake um not not not exactly but more one-to-one. I have to imagine that having Final Fantasy 7 already made did not necessarily make the remaking the remake that much easier. It's a completely different game like play style wise. For that one I urge if you're interested in Final Fantasy 7 Final Fantasy go play Final Fantasy 7 to completion if you if you have the time if you have the ability um it will surprise you it will 100 with the remake or the the remake through make I say play both honestly like if you have the time both like the first the original is actually not that long yeah it's not the long I think you get in I think there is actually I think there is a benefit to playing there is more of a benefit to playing the remake if you've played the original than if you have not and that's not that's not like a oh you get cool things there is actual stuff in the main story of the game that pays off more if you played the original yeah yeah um well shit I gotta go do some homework some ports and remake too is like if you if you buy Final Fantasy 7 the original the 97 one on any like modern console it has like a fast forward feature and like has some like quality of life stuff that can like help too you know so it's like I'm all for that I just like I don't I don't know that we need to keep remaking everything um speaking of uh what we talked about a second ago um uh Cole on this show we we don't allow the phrase to completion if you just remember that that's a little bit better steamy climax okay that's a little bit better also uh going back to what we were talking about earlier um hey it's me your son again uh I had hello I woke up and things were sticky can you walk me through that well it seems you've peed yourself son no no it definitely wasn't pee you had some pickle pee and you couldn't help it you looked out your pickle and no it was a new it was a new thing a new thing yeah okay let's stop talk to your mother talk to your mother oh no she sent me to you um oh my god that's so funny talk to your friends in middle school they'll explain it all okay got it got it google things it's true google girls and bikinis and just kind of try and figure it out our boys girls and bikinis google guys and bikinis it don't matter yeah yeah yeah you know google whatever the fuck you want to google bikini bikinis and bikinis but bananas and pajamas whatever whatever works for you google prime really in a bikini you will believe what you'll find yeah google samus what's under that suit and we'll find out oh this is the weirdest episode we've ever done um I would like to see if we could hit one one audience question if I like that a lot question let's do that but we haven't talked about tit-tok yet I was gonna say it'll be here next week but maybe not I don't let's talk about it next week regardless I'm still processing some feelings that I have because I've it's gonna be okay to be fair the tiktok news has not fully developed they are still finding out whether it's going to be banned they're trying to find a parent company in the US maybe Microsoft Microsoft's interested in buying if they buy it cool tiktok because to stay around if they don't then people are still gonna have tiktok we have uh vpns what um one time one time I slacked uh uh eric bedouard broadcast and I was like we should just make our like rooster teeth should make our own tiktok app like now's the time to strike and I don't he's not gonna listen to this I don't know if he knows that I was 100 serious because I think he thought I was joking but I was actually completely serious and was just kind of floating the idea to see the response and I got my answer uh yes I have so many complicated feelings about tiktok you heard it announced here rooster teeth is making our own tiktok yep that's the social clip it's called I don't think I should say it uh uh uh Tyler stab who's watching this right now in broadcast I had he's gonna pretty good names oh I get it uh yeah I was gonna say tiktok yeah tiktok for cock talk no uh um uh hey shane yeah hey shane can we go back to the actually real quick he's just real quick super super fast he's just I'm sorry uh uh uh shane can we go back to to to mine and coles to up please we have we have but we have to have a uh a dialogue yeah I just need to have like a dialogue uh thank you thank you sorry for your spot there oh sorry son I'm in my study what's up oh my god cock talk oh my god never stay in my house again you are disowned be gone be gone thought and I just like I floss out I just I flossed hey Issa uh be be the be the good host please let's let's go to an audience submitted question yeah yeah episode so chaotic our mations asked us do you guys ever dip your toes into the other parts of production on the show like foley or doing your own animation or stuff like that uh of course that is how it's spelled just so you know it is yes you got it in one of course goes to everyone erin yes it's not necessarily animation but if you guys do other parts of production for the show I mean definitely as art director now I'm definitely helping out with other departments a lot more like I've given notes to sound for sound design a bit more um recently um mark in the vfx team were asking me like oh how did you imagine this effect to look and like I couldn't like draw it out so I just ended up doing a really shitty animation in photoshop hey um cool if it works it moves and they're like oh yeah I totally I know that I know what you want um so it's definitely yeah more recently I've been like kind of like dipping my toes my toes yeah there's gotta be and this is not on any one person there's gotta be another phrase that we can use I'm gonna google that while y'all keep answering okay yeah I'm sure I'm sure I've sure I've done more I mean I guess I work with a lot with like merch now to cut my teeth cutting teeth that's not painful it's not our favorite uh okay hang on uh quick update I tried to google the sentence alternatives for dipping your toes oh no uh and it auto completed with alternatives for dipping your own nails oh that's like a nail tutorial yeah that's a nail salon yeah okay sorry moving on we don't have to linger that's fine okay I'm still I'm still kind of processing but that's I think that's like to me that my but like honestly besides the people that's my second favorite thing about Rooster Teeth yeah is the opportunities that I think are afforded to a lot of people is the ability to dip your toes into multiple fields I mean as my introduction at the beginning of this episode I am editor normally but then also producer and host and then um personality personality we're also looking in like I'm even starting to look more into studying rigging for some stuff I want to work on coming up eventually oh yeah that's right um wink on but I mean yeah absolutely I mean I it also helps your job like I mean I know um one of the directors on Ruby currently Connor used to be lead editor um part of the process of him making that transition was learning about all the different pieces of the pipeline and dipping his toes and he learning oh how can I use is there a way to use Maya to help the editorial process is there a way to use Photoshop to help the the editorial process funny funny story about that uh I think last season Connor started fooling around with Photoshop a bit more like he started drawing his own boards yeah and like a lot of times we'll do uh uh I was gonna say yeah a lot of times we'll do like thumbnails before we talk to the board artist to kind of like help get our idea across yeah like once upon a time and we are still in the office together he would like slap me be like Aaron how do I make a new layer and I was like oh my god I know like I love I love when the directors draw thumbnails for us because they're just so charming I love they're not the best but they get the point across and they make me laugh I like seeing non-artists draw all at Dustin and Connor there's look pretty solid that should be like a second eventually is all of the directors draw a thumbnail or draw a board and you have to guess which director drew which board oh that's a great prompt yeah so if you see if you saw mine you'd be like wait are we guessing who it was or are we guessing if they're blindfolded because the answer is yes who was or why they would do this yeah um for me I think the most recent so ever since kind of transitioning into a director role I don't normally animate as much as I used to um but Cole hit the nail on the head when he mentioned that one of the coolest parts about working at Rooster Teeth is actually being able to do like wear a lot of different hats. There are definitely people who don't prefer doing that and I totally respect that and if you look at the industry as a whole in general and especially those like mainstream quote-unquote standardized companies like Disney Nickelodeon the bigger stuff once you get to bigger companies you have to be specialized because there are people who are very much like no we just need this one person to do this one job and that's that's completely valid frankly like it is like meant to be simple in that way but then the more you get to like this uh I guess like the idea of like a climbing bladder a higher tier thing um in terms of roles you do end up adopting a lot of knowledge about all these different roles when Rooster Teeth uh I was not necessarily just an animator I was also learning how to rig as well so we didn't have a technical artist in the 2D team back in the day before we had UEDA before we had all the other artists that we were able to employ so as it it was up to me as lead animator to actually build the models so technically I was also lead technical artist uh once upon a time um but then also one of the other things too in I think it's it's very often in uh main main cartoon shows uh main in the US um the way to get to being a showrunner or directorship is you have to storyboard uh the the normal path is you're a storyboarder first and then you become a director because you tend to have the most storytelling knowledge from there especially with how the storyboarding works or the storyboarding area works so um that I'm nervous about that because I have to do a lot more boarding as a director but it's actually like uh it's fun I guess like theoretically I'm also a boarder but you don't get to see that part of myself yeah my my knowledge of uh anime is the same is the directors tend to be more storyboard like they you need to be a storyboard artist to be a director yeah which scares me yeah whatever you do don't look at Satoshi Kahn's boards because he basically just straight up animates everything oh I have a book of them yeah oh god it's too late yeah well sometimes I compare his and like Hideako Anno's and it's like from Evangelion and it's like oh I mean they both work though yeah like that's the important part but it just needs working up for when it gets to the animator like they're the ones who are animating it yeah I mean it's awesome that they're gonna put all this like effort and making perfect perfect but still needs to the animator still has to animate it and that's what that's what rule about animation is that there's so many hands touching it yeah all of the hands all of the hands and let's touch them all just like baseball oh yeah you just like taken animators animation because you're so mad at how no shitty they did it and then oh no that's just not healthy uh I well I remember watching this like when when like a behind the scenes segment with Miyazaki during like Princess Mononoke and he was like rumbling for like five minutes just like like why did they choose to do this and then after like after like 13 minutes of just drawing he came he comes out with a fucking run cycle that's so much better and it's like god damn old man so far are you right he's right I wish I loved anything that much I wish there was one thing that I love that much uh is it not pickle beer no I love pickle beer but I I would never make a better pickle beer it it this is fine yeah I'm not gonna yank the pickle beer out of the the crafters hands like you go yeah you didn't squeeze the pickle hard enough yes you have to you have to sweet talk to pickle you have to hang it out no no no sushi dinner you have to uh it's sour you have to torture the pickle we want fog wide pickles guys I'm ending it okay I think it's a good place to end it nasty boys great great thanks everyone nasty couple nasty pickle boys nasty oh I like that I like that team name for caring coal actually that's a great team we're the we're the nasty pickle bowl I'm a pickle father and son Karen I want to apologize I feel like that that's me pulling a lot more because you don't like pickles so that's well that's why I'm nasty I'm bringing the nasty nasty I'm the pickle yeah I'm like if you combined Waluigi and warrior together oh that's me that's a that's a very tangible description yeah I'm I'm constantly like dump out his pickle juice now I'll be like yeah I know I drank I drank it I thought juice it's beer sorry you're pee sure thanks everyone for tuning in thank you Aaron and Cole for joining us today you're welcome to have you thank you Kari for having yourself and for being amazing thank you audience thank you if you haven't or do it again go binge report about ours all it's amazing yeah it's you have no excuse not to yeah it's all out it's four episodes yeah four episodes five minutes each to 20 minutes of break what are you doing yeah go watch it guys yeah if you guys have it already please like and subscribe to I have notes if you guys have 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